
The Notorious Reno Gang
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They were the first outlaws to rob a moving train. But from 1864 to 1868, the Reno brothers and their gang of counterfeiters, robbers, burglars, and safecrackers also held the town of Seymour, Indiana, hostage, making a large hotel near the train station their headquarters. When the gang robbed the Adams Express car of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad on the outskirts of Seymour on October 6, 1866, it shocked the world-and made other burgeoning outlaws like Jesse James sit up and take notice. The extraordinary-and extra-legal-efforts to take them out defined the term "frontier justice." From the first report of the robbery, Allan Pinkerton's operatives were on the scene, followed by kidnappings, lynchings, and an extradition from Canada to Indiana that caused an international incident. In the end, ten members of the Reno Gang were hanged, including three of the Reno brothers. And no one was ever charged with the murders.
The Notorious Reno Gang tells the complete story for the first time, revealing how these gangsters, Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, and the little city of Seymour ushered in the Wild West.
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- Intro
- Contents
- Prologue
- Ch01. Old Rockford
- Ch02. Meet the Players: John Reno and Allan Pinkerton
- Ch03. The Birth of Seymour
- Ch04. The Reno Boys and the Civil War
- Ch05. Allan Pinkerton Goes to Washington
- Ch06. Seymour Takes a Stand
- Ch07. Koniakers and Boodle
- Ch08. Incident at Pana, Illinois
- Ch09. The First Train Robbery
- Ch10. Talley and Brooks Meet the Vigilance Committee
- Ch11. The Second Train Robbery
- Photospread
- Ch12. Vigilante Fever
- Ch13. Missouri Breaks John Reno
- Ch14. Iowa Raids
- Ch15. The Third Train Robbery
- Ch16. The Fourth Train Robbery
- Ch17. Hanging, Redux
- Ch18. Will and Simeon Reno's Day in Court
- Ch19. Extradition from Canada
- Ch20. Cutting Off the Head of the Snake
- Ch21. Fallout from the New Albany Hangings
- Ch22. Dr. Monroe Moves On
- Ch23. John Reno-Last Man Standing
- Ch24. Allan Pinkerton Writes His Books
- Ch25. Seymour after the Reno Gang
- Ch26. And in the End
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliographic Note
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
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